The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-19
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NIX. EDITOR - although not in
the habit OF writing anything for
publication, | have long felt like say
ing something on the subject Of Sab
bath-breaking.
We are a Sabbath breaking ma
ton. Our national authorities are,
by their governmental authority,
compelling men to violate the holy
Sabbath which the eternal God has
positively forbidden. He says:
Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work: but
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, nor they man-servant,
nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates" etc.
Now, in the face of all this, our
national authorities are having the
mails, transported from place to place,
all over these United States. The
railroad trains are running, and
thousands of men laboring all day
every Sabbath, giving excuse and
encouragement to railroad compa-
MES TO run their trains to make mon
ey. The men thus engaged are de-
prlved of the privilege of going to
church, when, perhaps, thousands OF
them, if they were not thus engaged,
would attend church and become
Christians, and would, finally, be
saved in heaven but on account of
this Sabbath work, will be eternally
lost. Under the law that God gave
His chosen people, the penalty OF
Sabbath breaking was death. May
we not fear this sin, if persisted in
will be the death Of our Christian
nation! Can we reasonably expect
the smiles and blessings of God upon
US while we are thus bidding de.
fiance to His commands Have VIC
not cause to look forward to the
time when Gods anger will be pour
ed out upon us: May we not feai
that when His judgments begin to
come upon us, and We begin to cry
to Him for mercy and pardon, He
may say to us as He did to the proph-
ct: II will not be enquired of by
you" As the nation has set the
precedent, the people are following
her example.
Sunday newspapers are being print.
ed, causing laborers to work on the
Sabbath. They, employ hundreds
yea, thousands, of little boys to sell
their papers training them from
their boyhood to disregard the Sab
bath; and members of the Church,
who profess to be followers of the
meek and lowly Jesus, encouraging
those boys by buying their papers on
the Sabbath, when the laws of God
and man forbid the buying and sell
ing on the Sabbath day. Also, street
Car companies in the cities running
their cars on the Sabbath for the OBJ
ject of making money, driving the
poor horses nearly to death, wht n
God has forbidden it.
Now, will the Church, in her Off
cial assemblies, speak out and give
their condemnation OF these things,
and pray that God may so move up.
on our rulers and corporations that
this great evil may come to an end?
Why may not our farmers go with
their plows and hoes and work all
day Sabbath Why not allow ali
workshops to open and 90 to work,
and let their engines be blowing and
believing all day Sunday, as well as
the railroads -?
We propose to be a Christian ma
ton. Now, while we are receiving
thousands by emigration from differ
ent nations, ought we not to teach
them lesson, by law and example,
to fear God and keep His command
ments, and thus lead them to respect
Christianity? TRAVELLER.